Re: [qubes-users] Request for feedback: 4.9 Kernel

On 05/24/2017 03:51 PM, Chris Laprise wrote: 4.9 is working OK so far. I was using 4.8 prior to this. Additional note: 4.9 seems to resolve a zombie process issue I was having with 4.8 (domU), and the 4.9.33-18 security update is working well so far. -- Chris Laprise,

Re: [qubes-users] Switching from UEFI to BIOS after installation...

On Tuesday, June 20, 2017 at 10:30:40 PM UTC-4, motech man wrote: > On Monday, September 26, 2016 at 2:40:51 AM UTC-5, Mara Kuenster wrote: > > Yes, SOME VMs work sometimes ☺. > > > > I will just reinstall, it’s better anyway to have no unsupervised downtime > > between installing qubes and AEM,

Re: [qubes-users] Switching from UEFI to BIOS after installation...

On Monday, September 26, 2016 at 2:40:51 AM UTC-5, Mara Kuenster wrote: > Yes, SOME VMs work sometimes ☺. > > I will just reinstall, it’s better anyway to have no unsupervised downtime > between installing qubes and AEM, especially since I used Windows already on > the same PC before activating

[qubes-users] Ubuntu Xenial Update Dependency Breakages

Hey all, Trying to update my Ubuntu Xenial template, but hitting following dependency issue. You can see my attempts to resolve this to no avail: ... Reading state information... Done 3 packages can be upgraded. Run 'apt list --upgradable' to see them. user@xenial-desktop:~$ sudo apt list

[qubes-users] Re: install Qubes 3.2 Stucked at "Starting Switch Root..."

On Tuesday, June 20, 2017 at 10:42:25 AM UTC-4, Paulo Marques wrote: > Hi Cooloutac, thanks for yours advice man > > "it would require building your own iso or using some kickstart file. I > believe this has been done before but I'm failing to find it searching the > mailing list. > >

[qubes-users] Re: SSD cache breaks Anti Evil Maid completely

On Tuesday, June 20, 2017 at 8:34:51 PM UTC-5, motech man wrote: > I'm new to qubes but in my seaches to get up to speed (seems like I'll never > see the light of day again after starting down the Qubes rabbit hole!) I > noticed this post and when researching what AEM is found this on the Qubes

[qubes-users] Re: SSD cache breaks Anti Evil Maid completely

I'm new to qubes but in my seaches to get up to speed (seems like I'll never see the light of day again after starting down the Qubes rabbit hole!) I noticed this post and when researching what AEM is found this on the Qubes website: o - If you are using LUKS with LVM, you must encrypt the

Re: [qubes-users] Re: Possible rootkit found on my Fedora 24 template?

If you're worried about rootkits, the threat looks somewhat different for Qubes templates and template-based VMs because the templates themselves are so well protected (essentially read-only most of the time). The potential threat lay with configuration files stored in /rw (private.img) which

Re: [qubes-users] Re: Possible rootkit found on my Fedora 24 template?

On 06/20/2017 01:06 PM, slemmigtor...@gmail.com wrote: Or is this a false positive? If you 'man xl' you'll see its a Xen command (Qubes runs under Xen). Its included in my Fedora template so I don't think there is a problem. Also don't know how a root would have gotten into your

Re: [qubes-users] Re: Possible rootkit found on my Fedora 24 template?

On Tue, Jun 20, 2017 at 10:06:36AM -0700, slemmigtor...@gmail.com wrote: > Or is this a false positive? > It's almost certainly a false positive, triggered by the presence of xl, and nothing more. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "qubes-users"

Re: [qubes-users] Does "open in disposable VM" from modifying the original file?

On Mon, Jun 19, 2017 at 10:02:04PM -0400, taii...@gmx.com wrote: > Assuming you don't make any changes yourself, it would also be nice to have > a "yes/no" popup so you can choose as to if you wish to have a truly > disposable version. I'm not quite sure what your point is, because there's a word

[qubes-users] FYI: AMD Epyc (server CPUs) comes with low-level per-VM DRAM Encryption / isolation support

Too bad it's (probably) not coming to the desktop, but interesting nonetheless: https://www.servethehome.com/amd-epyc-7000-series-key-security-virtualization-performance-features/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "qubes-users" group. To unsubscribe

Re: [qubes-users] Re: Any release schedule for Qubes 4.0

Le 20/06/2017 à 19:49, Reg Tiangha a écrit : > Curious: Did you install the qubes-usb-proxy package in both sys-usb and > sys-net templates before attempting to transfer the device? THanks for the hint, but yes, it is currently installed in the template used for both sys-usb and sys-net VMs. ॐ

Re: [qubes-users] Re: Any release schedule for Qubes 4.0

Le 20/06/2017 à 19:34, Foppe de Haan a écrit : > Do you know if driver support is included in newer kernels? I know that recent Mints and Debian do manage this hardware well... ॐ -- Swâmi Petaramesh PGP 9076E32E -- You received this message because you are subscribed

Re: [qubes-users] VPN Disconnects when Qubes goes to sleep (and does not reconnect when coming out of sleep)?

I completely hadn't thought of it that way. Well in that case I will indeed consider it a feature :) and refocus on more easily restarting it (an older post this group has already begun to help me with). Thx! On Wed, Jun 14, 2017 at 5:38 AM, Unman wrote: > On Mon,

Re: [qubes-users] manual update dom0 to newest 4.5 kernel

Is it reasonable to assume that the "unstable" repo doesn't mean "insecure"? I'm not sure how new I will need to go to to get more support for the Intel 630 integrated graphics. It only provides a single resolution of 1024x768. Also if I'm going to go thru the trouble of updating prior to the

[qubes-users] Re: The issue of non-proprietary BIOS and Qubes OS

Revised list of example systems, with corrections, price estimates, citations. Coreboot with all components open source; fully removed management engine: * Lenovo X200/T400/T500 w/ Coreboot, CPU: T9600 (dual core, each core about 50% of a modern i7-7920HQ [2]). Max 8 GB RAM. Cost: 75 USD

Re: [qubes-users] Re: Any release schedule for Qubes 4.0

On Tuesday, June 20, 2017 at 7:14:04 PM UTC+2, Swâmi Petaramesh wrote: > Le 20/06/2017 à 17:27, Reg Tiangha a écrit : > > > > > Personally, I'd rather have them leave it in the oven until it's fully > > baked, rather than to rush it out and then patch heavily later. If it > > isn't ready yet,

Re: [qubes-users] Re: Any release schedule for Qubes 4.0

Le 20/06/2017 à 17:27, Reg Tiangha a écrit : > > Personally, I'd rather have them leave it in the oven until it's fully > baked, rather than to rush it out and then patch heavily later. If it > isn't ready yet, then it isn't ready. Well, I was not criticizing, I was just asking :-} I'm a bit

[qubes-users] Re: Possible rootkit found on my Fedora 24 template?

Or is this a false positive? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "qubes-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to qubes-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to

[qubes-users] Possible rootkit found on my Fedora 24 template?

Hello and thanks for reading. I installed rkhunter, updated it and ran it. It gave me this: [17:28:20] Checking running processes for suspicious files [ Warning ] [17:28:20] Warning: The following processes are using suspicious files: [17:28:20] Command: xl [17:28:20]UID:

Re: [qubes-users] Any release schedule for Qubes 4.0

> On Jun 20, 2017, at 11:27 AM, Reg Tiangha wrote: > > On 2017-06-20 9:06 AM, Swâmi Petaramesh wrote: >> Hi there, >> >> I've been googling here and there, and couldn't find any release >> schedule for the upcoming qubes 4.0... > > They haven't released one yet and

[qubes-users] Re: Any release schedule for Qubes 4.0

On 2017-06-20 9:06 AM, Swâmi Petaramesh wrote: > Hi there, > > I've been googling here and there, and couldn't find any release > schedule for the upcoming qubes 4.0... > > Any clue anybody ? > > ॐ > They haven't released one yet and it will be done when it's done. Personally, I'd rather

[qubes-users] Any release schedule for Qubes 4.0

Hi there, I've been googling here and there, and couldn't find any release schedule for the upcoming qubes 4.0... Any clue anybody ? ॐ -- Swâmi Petaramesh PGP 9076E32E -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "qubes-users" group.

Re: [qubes-users] HCL Elitebook 2540p / Complete inability to use any Qubes 3.2 4.x series kernel

The only kernel that still functions is the leftover 3.8.17-8 from 3.1. Which is working fine for now, are there any downsides to continuing to use this? Going by today's security bulletin[1], which releases a new kernel - it seems that there may well be downsides. I wonder how best to

[qubes-users] QSB #31: Xen hypervisor vulnerabilities with unresearched impact (XSA 216-224)

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Dear Qubes community, We have just published Qubes Security Bulletin (QSB) #31: Xen hypervisor vulnerabilities with unresearched impact (XSA 216-224). The text of this QSB is reproduced below. This QSB and its accompanying signatures will always be

[qubes-users] The issue of non-proprietary BIOS and Qubes OS

Hi, Since a week I'm trying to find a secure laptop, without any backdoors or anything that can jeopardize the security and anonymity of the user. My last hope was to get a laptop that can handle Libreboot and install QubesOS on it. I checked the mailing list and I realized that installing

Re: [qubes-users] Configuring i3 window titlebar in Qubes

jkitt: > Strange.. because I've never had to do that, yet my title bar is > automagically colored. I think I'm using the package from the testing repo, > and also the qubes i3 config found on the wiki. I also have automagically coloring working, I just wanted to be able to edit the settings